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S. R. KING. BQTTLE WASHER. .No. 48184; Patented Dec. 13, 1892,

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SAMUEL R. KING, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-WASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,842, dated December 13, 1892.

Application filed May '7, 1892, Serial No.32,l63. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Bottle-Washing Attachment for Faucets, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of my improved bottle-washing attachment applied to a faucet, showing the position of the parts when a bottle is being washed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a portion of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same with the dischargetube in the position which it occupies when turned to shut off the water.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective bottle-washing device for the use of druggists and others, which can be attached to any ordinary faucet provided at its end witha screw-thread, said device being adapted to discharge the water into the bottle when turned upside down, therebythoroughly washing its interior and clearing it of any straws or other foreign matter therein.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of devices which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

In the said drawings, A represents a hollow vertical stem, the upper end of which is made flaring and provided with a swivelcouplingB for attachment to the threaded end of an ordinary faucet O, as shown in Fig. 1. At the lower end of the stem A is formed the body or shell of a stop-cock or valve D, bored out horizontally for the reception of the plug 19, which is secured in place by a screw d, bearing against a spring-washer e, the opposite end of the plugb being provided in the line of its axis with a tube G of small diameter forming a horizontal axially revoluble discharge-tube, the outer portion 10 of which is bent at an angle to adapt it to be turned either upward or downward into a vertical plane, said plug being provided with two diametrically-opposite apertures g h, opening into its interior and properly located to establish communication between the hollow plug and the hollow vertical stem A when the bent outer portion 10 of the dischargetube G is in a vertical plane with its mouth or outlet 12 pointing either upward or downward, while whenever the said bent portion 10 is placed in a horizontal position, as seen in Fig. 3, the plug will be turned into a position to close the stop-cock and shut off the water.

In washing a bottle its mouth is first placed over the outer end of the discharge-tube G when the latter is in the horizontal position shown in Fig. 3, after which the bottle is turned upward into the position shown in Fig. 1, which movement rotates the horizontal portion of the discharge-tube on its axis and carries the outer bent portion 10 into a vertical plane, as seen in Fig. 1,at the same time opening the stop-cock, when the water will be forcibly discharged upward into the bottle, cleansing it thoroughly and washing out all straws and other foreign substances, which it is frequently difficult to dislodge when washing a bottle in the ordinary manner with the .lnouth uppermost. After the operation is completed the bottle is turned down into a horizontal position and withdrawn, the water being by this movement shut 01f as required.

It is obvious that the lower aperture h of the plug 1) might be dispensed with; but I prefer to provide the said plug with the two openings g h, as shown, to enable communication to be established with the faucet 0 when the outer portion 10 of the dischargetube G is turned either upward or downward into a vertical plane, which permits water to be drawn for ordinary use from the faucet without requiring the bottle-washing attachment to be removed therefrom, the position of the outer bent portion of the dischargetube when turned downward being indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l.

The above-described attachment is simple and reliable, and is especially well adapted for the use of druggists or others having frequent occasion to wash out bottles of various sizes, which can, by my improved device, be cleansed more rapidly and thoroughly than with the ordinary devices hitherto in use.

WhatIclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bottle-washing attachment for faucets,

the hollow vertical stem A, having its upper end enlarged and provided with a coupling B for attachment to a faucet, combined with a horizontally-arranged stop-cock or valve D at the lower end of the stem, having a hollow plug extended laterally to form an axially- 5 revoluble discharge-tube G, said tube having its outer portion bent at an angle to adapt it to be turned either upward or downward into a vertical plane, and said hollow plug having two apertures g h, adapted to establish com- :o munication between the hollow stem A and the discharge-tube when the bent outer portion of the latter is turned to point its mouth or outlet either upward or downward, all constructed to operate substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 4th day of May, A. 15

, SAMUEL R. KING. In presence of P. E. TESOHEMACHER, GEORGE T. BROWN. 

